Notices by timorl (timorl@social.wuatek.is)

@cwebber “Queen of the fediverse” not as in “Queen of England”, but as in “May Queen“. :blobfox3c:

@HauntedOwlbear It’s on Seirdy’s FediNuke, with receipts on their page: https://seirdy.one/posts/2023/05/02/fediverse-blocklists/#receipts (you can ^F for the name after toggling the list). I can also confirm from personal experience that I have never seen anything non-fashy from there.

@liztai The way Jira is usually used is extremely bad. It’s a specialist tool with (too) many features, a good PM should be able to use a subset of those effectively, but a non-PM worker should preferably be only exposed to an absolute minimum of them by default. Jira doesn’t have any such UI build in though, and most PMs don’t notice how complex it is, so you end up being expected to do PM work in the middle of just trying to do your job – almost anyone would lose focus with so much significant context switching, it’s definitely not just you.

Best solution would be for management to understand how to use Jira, but that’s hard (and Jira doesn’t make it easier). More practical workarounds are to minimize how much you interact with it, just write the absolute minimum in the tickets, set that you are working on them, and don’t touch any of the other features. Management will probably complain that “this ticket is not correctly assigned” or somesuch, but crucially they will now be talking about tickets that are already done. :blobfoxmlem:

@freemo Have you seen the video? He does the full “from the heart” thing.

@chjara Maybe Kill La Kill is a prequel, and that’s why their clothes are… like that.

@freemo @ABScientist https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-06-03/ty-article/.premium/trump-is-desperate-for-cash-but-donors-have-conditions/0000018f-df3a-db29-a3ef-ff3a27530000 (paywalled) and https://www.newarab.com/news/pro-israel-mogul-wants-west-bank-annexed-after-trump-donation re-reporting based on the other one.

@freemo @ABScientist Reminder that his pattern from last time includes moving the US embassy to Jerusalem by request of one of his donors. This time, the same donor wants the West Bank annexed. I am pretty sure this will be way worse under Trump.

@HauntedOwlbear

Why is this post friends locked?

Uh, there are two (identical?) versions of this post, and one is but this one isn’t, instructions unclear. x<

@pettter

take out multiple banks and airlines

Critical support to comrade M$. :ablobsalute:

@HauntedOwlbear Ooh, good question. Therapy? is a well executed cover, but I feel Feuerschwanz are doing more with it, and the video is a cherry on top.

@HauntedOwlbear The confusion with police agitators should only be a problem at most initially, if you use them as long as they last, then most of the time they are visibly tarnished in a way that cops wouldn’t be comfortable with. :blobfox3cevil:

@freemo @avlcharlie Well, if one person also cannot own another do we also not have a free market regarding the ownership of resources, and thus real capitalism requires literal slavery?

Or, to be less socratic and more precise about the argument, in the market worker cooperative system all resources (tools, raw materials, outputs) can still be traded between worker cooperatives. The only “resource” that is not tradeable is ownership over the enterprise itself, and if you want to make a case for why this is bad you would have to go beyond “markets allocate resources efficiently” and into why this specific thing should be treated as a tradeable resource (like e.g. people shouldn’t be, which is why the previous paragraph). That is, you have to argue for private ownership of means of production being important into itself, which is why I’m saying this, and not markets, is crucial for capitalism. (I’m not saying at this point there are no arguments you can make for that, just that this is a different thing than just arguing for markets.)

@freemo @avlcharlie There is no reason why anyone couldn’t start a worker cooperative (perhaps a single-person one, if they are able to work by themselves) under that system, so I don’t think this objection quite works.

The one thing you don’t have is people who already have a lot of resources coming in and taking over a company to redirect its efforts, but then you are no longer making an argument in favour of markets, but in favour of exactly private ownership of capital, and how that is good directly (with many underlying assumptions, from the supposed meritocracy of capitalism, to the assumption that the best way of making money from an enterprise is to run it as well as possible). This does not require markets in general, but only the ability to buy an enterprise (not even necessarily at a market). As to how well it works in practice – see Twitter, Toys’R’Us, and the general problems stemming from private equity firms. But maybe I’m getting distracted, I’m mostly trying to point out that capitalism is mostly about this form of ownership and not about markets in general (which, while I don’t trust them, are much more defensible as a system imo).

@freemo @avlcharlie It’s not really restricting it to a group of people, but rather to a form of ownership. Not all forms of ownership are permitted or respected under capitalism either, at least not consistently, except for private ownership of capital.

Could you be more precise what you want out of these market pressures? That is, what market pressure is in your opinion missing or not working in a system in which worker cooperatives are the only way of owning means of production? Because if you want enterprises thriving and falling due to them (the main benefit of a market economy, although I have to again stress that I personally do not think it’s worth the trouble), then this works with worker cooperatives. The only market pressure I can think of that is not present is valuing the company itself, but then the argument comes back to private ownership, because only under that assumption this question even makes sense, so the argument becomes circular

If you define free markets as only systems where you can privately own anything then that’s kinda beyond capitalism – under modern versions of capitalism you cannot privately own e.g. people or the right to use violence. If you define them as systems where specifically means of production have to be privately ownable, then I can agree they are equivalent to capitalism, but then talking about the benefits of free markets is a bait-and-switch.

@freemo @avlcharlie You were talking about capitalism, not just free markets. And I was talking about private ownership of means of production, not ownership in general. In particular, your argument was around the optimizing power of markets (“supply-demand pressures”), which do not require private ownership of means of production to work. It’s a bait-and-switch, which is why I referred to it as capitalist propaganda.

And, correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t think you mean (even though the post would kinda imply it) that free markets require the ability to own anything, right?

@freemo @avlcharlie

All capitalism is is any system which includes free market trade

That’s just incorrect. Capitalism is about the model of ownership, not markets, being able to privately own means of production to be precise. You could have a system in which the only allowed form of ownership of means of production would essentially be a worker cooperative, but these cooperatives sell stuff within a market economy. This would be a form of market socialism, not capitalism.

Just to be clear, I’m not a market socialist myself. Nor do I agree with the premise of this thread, but I’m not in the mood of arguing about that, just correcting a common misconception. Especially since it’s an especially pervasive part of capitalist propaganda – you don’t actually need coercion to have markets, while you need coercion to enforce private ownership, so associating capitalism with the former makes it seem freer than it is.

@AnthonyJK The problem here is that he will likely lose. Pressuring people to vote for Biden can work to an extent, but even a relatively small part of the ~150k not relenting to the pressure (not to mention people who are bothered by this, but didn’t participate in the primary) can swing an election against him, the margins simply aren’t that big. However this is spun, if people around Biden care about winning, they have to be real sweaty right now. @AnarchoNinaWrites

@irenes Oh gods, the posts haven’t federated here, but I can feel the nerds screaming at you that these are definitely not Legolas and Boromir. @quinn

A post reminded me – just yesterday I learned thanks to Wikipedia that the current king of Sweden is the grandson of a high-ranking nazi. Monarchy being Cool and Good™ as always.

@marcel_kolaja

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